goals for term 2

This week we had to set our goals for the term. My goal for this term is to focus on being in the right place doing the right thing at the right time.

Maths Dlo

This week we did an activity about place vale and  Thousands.We had to point out the Thousands and the hundreds and the tens and ones.I like this active because you got to teach others.

Numeracy reflection Week 7

This week for numeracy we did a place value work. I liked this activity because i new how to do it so i got it completed fast. I learnt how to do what it means and how to get them right.

Numeracy reflection T1W5

This week for maths we did something with money and I liked it because it was fun and I liked it a lot. 

reflections 2016 week 6

This week for Chapter chat Mrs Clark gave as a opcin to do 4 Chapter chat activity's  and i chose this one because i like Chelsea and it's my favorite team in scorer.I like this activity   because you had to make your own Chelsea card and i like that we could design your own card.



This week for tic tic toe I chose free writing for it. I liked this activity because you got to chose your own writing.  I wrote about going to the Birchfeld's farm.


this week for maths Mrs Clark set a task for maths and it was easy.I liked this activity because you got learn about 3d shapes and 2d shapes.

reflections Term 3 blog

Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration (also called the Age of Discovery) began in the 1400s and continued through the 1600s. It was a period of time when the European nations began exploring the world. They discovered new routes

to India, much of the Far East, and the Americas. The Age of Exploration took place at the same time as the Renaissance.

Why explore?

Outfitting an expedition could be expensive and risky. Many ships never returned. So why did the Europeans want to explore? The simple answer is money. Although, some individual explorers wanted to gain fame or experience adventure, the main purpose of an expedition was to make money.

How did expeditions make money?

Expeditions made money primarily by discovering new trade routes for their nations. When the Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople in 1453, many existing trade routes to India and China were shut down. These trade routes were very valuable as they brought in expensive products such as spices and silk. New expeditions tried to discover oceangoing routes to India and the Far East. Some expeditions became rich by discovering gold and silver, such as the expeditions of the Spanish to the Americas. They also found new land where colonies could be established and crops such as sugar, cotton, and tobacco could be grown.

Henry the Navigator

The Age of Exploration began in the nation of Portugal under the leadership of Henry the Navigator. Henry sent out ships to map and explore the west coast of Africa. They went further south than any previous European expedition and mapped much of western Africa for the Portuguese. In 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa and into the Indian Ocean.

Christopher Columbus

Soon the Spanish wanted to find a trade route to the Far East. Explorer Christopher Columbus thought that he could sail west, across the Atlantic Ocean, to China. He could not get the Portuguese to fund his expedition, so he went to the Spanish. Spanish monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand agreed to pay for Columbus' trip. In 1492 Columbus discovered the New World of the Americas.

Portugal and Spain

Portugal and Spain became the early leaders in the Age of Exploration. Through the Treaty of Tordesillas the two countries agreed to divide up the New World. Spain got most of the Americas while Portugal got Brazil, India, and Asia. Spain sent over conquistadors to explore the Americas and to conquer the peoples there. Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire in Peru. They made Spain rich with the gold and silver they found in the Americas. Portugal sent out Vasco da Gama who found a trade route around the southern tip of Africa and to India. They also explored mu?hina at Macau.

Colonies

Other countries such as Great Britain and the Netherlands established colonies in the New World. Eventually Great Britain would overtake all of the European nations in terms of the size of their world wide empire including the thirteen colonies in the Americas that later became the United States.

Geography

The Age of Exploration was one of the most important times in the history of world geography. A large portion of the unknown world was mapped during this short period. Also, many advances were made in navigation and mapping which helped future explorers and travelers.

Interesting Facts about the Age of Exploration

• During the Age of Exploration Europeans referred to the entire area of Southeast Asia and India as the "East Indies".
• The first expedition to circle the globe was led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Unfortunately, Magellan was killed during the expedition and did not complete the voyage.
• Some areas of the world were not fully mapped or discovered until well after the Age of Exploration including Eastern Australia, the interior of Africa, the Arctic, and the Antarctic.
• Many explorers such as Captain James Cook and Sir Francis Drake searched for a Northwest Passage to East Asia, but it wasn't until
• 1906 that explorer Ronald Amundsen completed the journey.

This week for Literacy Mrs Clark made the class study why people explorer in our own words and we were not allowed to use google it was hard because we had to think for our selves and use our own knowledge.

This week for Literacy Mrs Clark made the class do this explorer summary I really liked this activity because you had to think why people explorer in our own words and not use google it was a challenge but I liked it.

reflections literacy Week 6 Term 3

Here is my Life cycle of a frog. It was very very fun because i got to learn about frogs and what they do and how they get damaged and my Walt is to write an explanation using the correct structure.
Here is my To be a explorer  i said a lot about how to be a explorer  and safety when you are exploring so you don't hurt  your self when your explorer.

reflections Week 5 Term 3

This my medal tally for this Olympics. We had won 18 medals this Olympics that was a like a winning streak for NZ. I was very happy when  we broke our record for the amount of medals won.This is Knowledge activity 3. I used a Google slide because you can make new slides to add more information.

This is my fractions for this week. I learnt a lot about fractions this week it was hard learning about fractions
but it was cool learning about factions , my DLO shows what I know now about fractions. I liked it a lot, I used  a google slide because you can make new slides.  I need to work on identifying fractions more quickly, I find this a bit tricky.

week 4 reflections term 3

This week i have been working on this Olympics slide. It is about how the olympics began. Next time I should have a bit more information in this slide because I rushed this activity.
And this my current NZ Olympian research it was cool learning about Sonny Bill Williams, but it wasn't cool when he was out the Olympics it was sad because he is a really good 7s player :(

Book Character day today was fun.  I dressed as an army person from my army book that I have at home.  I chose this character and my friend and I dressed up the same.

Reflections Week 8 Term 2

For word work we had to hangman it was very fun doing it I did movie hero because I wanted to learn  more movie heroes .

My  whole class had to do this math follow up We are learning about Financial Literacy. It was fun because we got to make our birthday party . Its fun making birthday party.

Here is my follow up from this week. This is my follow up It was fun to do for work  i really liked it .Thanks Mrs Clark

Here is our writing for this week . We were learning the correct usage of punctuation. It was easy to do I really liked it so much .

Reflections Week 7 Term 2

 My group learnt FV PV TV it was cool learning it


Here my group had do fishy numbers it was a great starer it was every fun

 This is my writing this week.  We had to include similes in our work.

Reflections Term 2 Week 5

     Here we had to describe about the character Eddie  he was shy in the book a lot he got over his fear .

 

We were learning to identify tens and ones.  My group mastered this so Mrs Clark challenged us with 3 digit numbers.

week 4 Term 2 Reflections

We had to google research how many bats where in Australia.  There were 20000 bats, that is a lot.

Our class read mrs stink.  When we finished reading the book we watched the movie.  We had to do similarities and differences between them. There were a lot of both.

week 3 reflection 2016

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Reflections Wk 2 T2

i learnt what i do in my day  i don,t really r ember what i do in my day 

For Maths we had to create a table showing what we did in a day and work out how long we spent on each activity.  

 I learnt about ANZAC people who won land for us all and thought for you and others.

Reflections Week 9

Reflection week 2-5